Mao’s Reflective Encounter’s begins with three challenges that comparative rhetoric as defined by Kennedy faces: temptation of resorting to the defiency mode, identifying “rhetorical universals” across cultures and imposing principles from Western classical rhetoric onto other cultural rhetorical practices. Mao offers a brief history of comparative rhetoric as subdiscipline in our field and fleshes out [...]
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February 14, 2008
“Studying the Chinese Rhetorical Tradition in the Present: Re-presentiing the Native’s Point of View” by LuMing Mao
In this important article, Mao insists that those scholars studying cultural rhetorics must reflect on the methodologies we employ in studying the rhetorical practices of the Other and deepen our understanding of how these methodologies connect to our objects of study and our understanding of Other as well as ourselves (216). Mao advocates for a [...]
